Posted on 12/01/2010 12:35:15 PM PST by Yaelle
Last night I went into Cost Plus for some imported candy treats for the kids. I've also been seeking Chanukah wrapping paper, which is nowhere to be found in stores this year. I noticed that they had a huge section in the middle of the store under the sign "Holiday Wrap." As I perused the many bins, I found that every single roll of wrapping paper had Christmas themes or colors.
What was the original intent of transforming Christmas into the generic "holidays?" Wasn't it to not exclude the other religions who might possibly be celebrating Chanukah, Eid, Kwanzaa, or the Winter Solstice, all of which are equally important in the politically correct society? And yet, among the rolls of paper, there were none for Chanukah, the second most celebrated holiday in December. (I noted there was no wrap decorated with naked women being tortured with electrical cords either, for Kwanzaa.)
My question, which was not understood by either of the store employees as I asked it, remains: If your store has not purchased any wrapping paper for any other holiday, and all of the wrapping paper you have is clearly for Christmas, why can't the signage over the bins say "Christmas Wrap?"
LOL, no, that would be my Israeli dill. My dil is a doll.
Work parties. Throughout various employment venues over the years I've seen the Christmas party become the Holiday party. Not that the Christmas party was ever particularly Christian, the Holiday party became the replacement PC term that was intended to not offend anyone. Which is not realistically possible.
This year, however, it's being called a “Winter Celebration.”
Sorry, I do not celebrate winter. Don't welcome it, don't like the cold, the dark, the often treacherous roads, the snow, sleet, ice, etc.
Anyway, I think this qualifies as anti-Christmas idiocy...
It’s a Kosher pickle...
Kwanza is a ridiculous, made-up holiday without any kind of long-standing and time honored traditions to back it up.
right, apparently giving gifts was an america invention to satisfy children jealous of their Christian counterparts celebrating Christmas
Not having signs that say Christmas is "anti-Christmas idiocy" only if the purpose of Christmas is a commercial endeavor.
So, is your complaint that Christmas isn't somehow commercialized enough and you need yet more signage and blinking lights to remind you of Christ's birth?
I absolutely refuse to demand that the marketplace cater to me religiously since the marketplace is not where my faith rests.
I have unshakable faith in God and Jesus Christ.
I do not have unshakable faith in Target or Cost Plus. I do not need Cost Plus to tell me what season it is or how to celebrate the birth of our Lord. I need Cost Plus to have a decent price on marzipan and Speculaas.
Celebrating Christ's birth should not be affected in the least by whether or not Walmart/Kmart/Sears/Costco/Krogers/Sam's/Penney's/Target /Walgreens/etc. choose to call December 25th "Christmas" or not.
Our society has a very serious problem when we begin looking to the marketplace to stroke our egos and justify our faith through signs and commercials.
The only sign we need is in the Bible.
LOL!! OMgosh, how hideous — but true.
This is a pretty black community and you see the Kwanzaa crap in the stores but I have yet to see a lot of it sold.
You completely missed the point of my post. You’re like that a lot around here, aren’tcha?
I think it is GREAT that Cost Plus has so many creative designs of Christmas wrap. I just think they should call it Christmas wrap.
Yes, it appears they did!!
People, I was not complaining about not finding Chanukah paper. I was very upset that this political correctness is so superficial they don't even CARE why they do it -- they are NOT GOING TO SAY THE BAD WORD CHRISTMAS even for Christmas wrapping paper!!
Here is someone seeing if the "Holiday" section covers any other holiday, because that is why they SUPPOSEDLY label everything "holiday" instead of Christmas, no? And the employees didn't get it, and a lot of Freepers on this thread don't get it. They are simply making sure they do not say CHRISTMAS!! Which I find offensive to Christians and to me as a fellow American.
No doubt this is a huge problem for Rastafarians and Scientologists.
AMEN!!
Sigh!! I will leave it to actual CHRISTIANS to complain how commercial Christmas always is. Good luck, because the great Charlie Brown Christmas special was made in the 1960s and nothing’s changed. Except that now they call them “holiday trees” and “holiday wrap” and maybe next “holiday nativity scenes.”
If it gets to that latter, I want to see a Kwanzaa nativity scene with Karenga and his friends putting young naked women into vises and electrocuting them with live wires.
Originally, no. But in the U.S. and Europe in modern times, absolutely yes, to keep Jewish kids from whining that their gentile friends all got tons of toys from Santa Claus.
Try to find anything Christmas is Dearborn, MI. When we lived there, we had to go all the way to Taylor or Canton to find Christmas anything.
99% of all Kwanza celebrations are done behind the doors of the public schools.
The point was why refrain from saying Christmans when they are pushing Christmas. Nothing to do with it's commercialization only the PC crap the says we can sell it but not say it.
Absolutely...
“My Israeli dil tells me that they don’t give Channukah presents in Israel.”
Can I have her call my daughters? Wrapping now.
Chanukah is acceptable— Eid is a holiday for a demonic cult. and Kwanzaa is a FRAUD. But I am bone freaking weary of the unbelievers messing with Christmas. The “Sacred Writings”as
Old Ben Franklin called them June 28,1787- the Bible gives
ample documentation for a Reasonable man to cipher when the
Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us. (Dec.25 is a reasonable date for the conception o four Lord and Savior.
the babe in the manger and three Kings stuff is nice story
stuff And the lighted Christmas tree pretty -and does remind me of the Reformer Martin Luther cause I’ve been in the wood at night a time or twice.
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